Jinjila: Caminhos Escreviventes da Ancestralidade Preta na Literatura-Terreiro Kimbundu-Baiana.

Abstract

Jinjila: Caminhos Escreviventes da Ancestralidade Preta na Literatura-Terreiro Kimbundu- Baiana proposes research and study on the way in which the discourses of Kimbundu-Bahian Terreiro-Literature are established as essential in the elaboration of epistemologies for reading and producing black literature. This work has as its guiding concept Black Ancestry, which I title in these lines because it is the matrix of all the epistemological categories that African nations founded; the way so many of us in the diaspora understand and craft stories. In this context, for the nation of my casa-terreiro of Umbanda Bantu-Kongo/Angola and for the kimbundu language studies that I have developed since I became a teacher in training – NUPEL/UFBA, I highlight the strength of kimbundu-bahian literature, producer of lexicons and important disseminator of Bantu worldviews in Bahian territory, written by Lande Onawale, Kota Gandaleci, Louise Queiroz and Davi Nunes in the works: Kalunga: poemas de um mar sem fim. (2011) and Pretices e Milongas (poemas) by Lande Onawale; Kwame: a menina de vento e água. (2023), Girassóis estendidos na chuva. (2019) and Gonzo (2023) by Louise Queiroz; Bakulo (2018) by Kota Gandaleci; Bucala, a princesa do quilombo do Cabula. (2015), Um dia para famílias negras. (2021), Zanga (2018) and Banzo (2020) by Davi Nunes. The diversity of their textualities, their gestures, their dictions, their entrances and particularities, evoking perception for the multimodality of black writings from the perspective of Terreiro-Literature (FREITAS, 2016). Here begins a path that is also writing and theorizes and documents the poetics of these Bahians, making it possible this work.